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From: Joe on 28 Oct 2009 00:06 On 2009-10-28, terryc <newsninespam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:52:26 +0100, David Brown wrote: > >> Gabriel Knight wrote: >>> Hi all I need a free program to backup a ubuntu server for my school >>> class, it has to be as good or better than Rdiff and Rsync the server >>> will use SSH, MYSql and be a file and web server and do a couple of >>> other things. I need it to be either a gui or text box program. >>> >>> >> As others have said, the obvious choice here would be ... rsync. > > *sync isn't a abckup system. It is just a copy system. A copy *IS* a backup. -- Joe - Linux User #449481/Ubuntu User #19733 joe at hits - buffalo dot com "Hate is baggage, life is too short to go around pissed off all the time..." - Danny, American History X
From: terryc on 28 Oct 2009 00:09 On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:55 +1100, Grant wrote: >>*sync isn't a abckup system. It is just a copy system. > > And a backup is not a copy? A backup system has multiple copies, with historical content.
From: Keith Keller on 28 Oct 2009 00:48 On 2009-10-28, terryc <newsninespam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:55 +1100, Grant wrote: > >>>*sync isn't a abckup system. It is just a copy system. >> >> And a backup is not a copy? > > A backup system has multiple copies, with historical content. How do you come to that definition? A backup system has as many copies as desired/needed by business practice. If one copy without history is sufficient, then that's a good backup. --keith -- kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information
From: jjg on 28 Oct 2009 02:25 terryc wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:55 +1100, Grant wrote: > > >>>*sync isn't a abckup system. It is just a copy system. >> >> And a backup is not a copy? > > A backup system has multiple copies, with historical content. Well, you _can_ do that with rsync. see e.g. Rubel's article, in http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ But, strictly you are right; rsync is not, by itself, a backup system.
From: Joe on 28 Oct 2009 04:27
On 2009-10-28, terryc <newsninespam-spam(a)woa.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:55 +1100, Grant wrote: > > >>>*sync isn't a abckup system. It is just a copy system. >> >> And a backup is not a copy? > > A backup system has multiple copies, with historical content. So does rsync, if you use it that way. Rsnapshot is rsync, and I can give you a restore from my backup drive from any day in the last week, any week in the last month, and any month in the last year. GFS. Rsync, on it's own, can do the same, but takes a little more leg work. -- Joe - Linux User #449481/Ubuntu User #19733 joe at hits - buffalo dot com "Hate is baggage, life is too short to go around pissed off all the time..." - Danny, American History X |